Every year, the human impact on the world’s water sources becomes more pronounced. One of the triggers to this increase is the use of ineffective wastewater and sludge treatment systems. Recently, the number of studies of microwave processing in hand...
The paper presents the results of laboratory studies on the removal of phosphate in a wastewater treatment plant by adding sludge formed at the water treatment plant (water treatment sludge—WTS) in the city of Astana (Kazakhstan). Raw WTS from...
A comprehensive study incorporating results from different findings related to heavy metal removals from wastewater using sludge as an absorbent will assist researchers and practitioners in planning wastewater treatment processes. This study aims to...
8 September 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic and the related measures brought a change in daily life that affected the characteristics of the municipal wastewater and further, of the biological activated sludge. The activated sludge process is the most widely used biologic...
With China’s significant investment in wastewater treatment plants, urban sewage is effectively collected and treated, resulting in a substantial byproduct—sludge. As of 2021, a total of 2827 wastewater treatment plants have been construc...
This work presents an innovative approach on aerobic activated sludge (AS) wastewater treatment plants’ (WWTP) design and operation towards more efficient wastewater treatment, minimization of sludge accumulation and significant reduction of excess s...
With rapid urbanization and infrastructure investment, wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in Chinese cities are putting increased pressure on energy consumption and exacerbating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. A carbon footprint is provided as a too...
The authors conducted a study on treating synthetic dairy wastewater using aerobic granular sludge (AGS) in a laboratory-scale continuous flow reactor (CFR) system. The system consisted of an anaerobic reactor, an aerobic reactor, and a settling sedi...
Wastewater treatment systems retain a significant proportion of microplastics (MPs) derived from domestic and industrial discharges; however, these emerging pollutants are not completely removed and tend to accumulate in the biological sludge generat...
Significant quantities of pharmaceutical substances enter biological wastewater treatment plants, where they interact with activated sludge microorganisms. An example of a pharmaceutical commonly used is the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug diclo...
9 January 2020
Controlling wastewater pollution from centralized industrial zones is important for reducing overall water pollution. Microbial community structure and diversity can adversely affect wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) performance and stability. Theref...
Various wastewater treatment technologies are available today and biological processes are predominantly used in these technologies. Increasing wastewater treatment systems produces large amounts of sewage sludge with variable quantities and qualitie...
Improved wastewater (WW) treatment contributes to preserving human life and aquatic ecosystems and acting on climate change. The use of drinking water treatment sludges (WTS) as coagulants in the primary treatment of WW contributes, in this regard, a...
Antimicrobial compounds are used in a broad range of personal care, consumer and healthcare products and are frequently encountered in modern life. The use of these compounds is being reexamined as their safety, effectiveness and necessity are increa...
Life cycle assessment (LCA) has been used to evaluate wastewater treatment technologies, processes, and scenarios. The outcomes of LCA are affected by various uncertainties, including those from input data and those from the LCA model set-up (i.e., s...
Membrane bioreactor (MBR) systems are connected to several advantages compared to the conventional activated sludge (CAS) units. This work aims to the examination of the life cycle environmental impact of an MBR against a CAS unit when treating munic...
Interest in the presence of microplastics (MPs) in wastewater has grown significantly in recent years. In fact, wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) represent the last barrier before the discharge of MPs into an aquatic ecosystem. The research has hig...
Biological foaming is a major problem in activated sludge (AS) wastewater treatment systems. In this study, four wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) (a total of six AS treatment systems) were investigated. The microscopic examination shows that foami...
This study evaluated the anaerobic digestibility of primary sludge from two wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), Leeuwkuil and Rietspruit. Anaerobic biodegradation produces biogas as an energy carrier. Sludge from the primary settling tanks was teste...
The aim of the present paper is to develop a reliable and accurate model of the wastewater biochemical treatment process and to explore the behaviour through a general dynamic simulation environment, namely the INtegrated Simulation Environment Langu...
Biofoam formation in wastewater treatment is a challenge globally. Previously, we successfully proposed the use of biodefoamers instead of synthetic defoamers for environmental protection. In this study, we report on biodefoamation modeling using act...
Activated sludge models (ASMs) are often used in the simulation of the wastewater treatment process to evaluate whether the effluent quality parameters of a wastewater treatment plant meet the standards. The premise of successful simulation is to cho...
22 July 2019
The qualitative and quantitative analysis of 16 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in sludge samples from drinking water treatment plants (DWTP) and wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) were established using gas chromatography–mass spectrom...
In this study, the presence of microplastics in the sludge of three wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) was examined. The investigated WWTPs operated based on a conventional activated sludge (CAS) process, with (W1) or without (W2) primary clarificat...
A survey of wastewater treatment facilities in the Federated States of Micronesia revealed a lack of fully functional treatment systems and conditions that potentially could lead to adverse environmental impacts and public health concerns. Due to ina...
Microplastics have emerged as a global environmental concern due to their widespread presence and potential effects on ecosystems. Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) play a critical role in mitigating the release of microplastics into the environmen...
The activated sludge process, along with its modifications, is currently the most widely used wastewater treatment method to achieve desired environmental outcomes. However, it is also characterized by operational instability resulting from changing...
A new sorbent material, barium sulfate-Direct Blending Yellow D-3RNL hybrid (BSD), was synthesized and characterized by various methods. Both the anionic dyes, Reactive Brilliant Red X-3B and Weak Acid Green GS were hardly adsorbed by the BSD materia...
A survey was conducted of the wastewater treatment systems and related sludge handling practices on the island of Yap, in the Federated States of Micronesia, to assist in identifying areas where further work would be merited to improve on effectivene...
Sludge Volume Index (SVI) is one of the most important operational parameters in an activated sludge process. It is difficult to predict SVI because of the nonlinearity of data and variability operation conditions. With complex time-series data from...
Municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) use functional microorganisms in activated sludge (AS) to reduce the environmental threat posed by wastewater. In this study, Illumina NovaSeq sequencing of 16S rRNA genes was performed to explore the mic...
The article presents an energy, economic and environmental (3-E) analysis of a reference wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) with a capacity of 200,000 population equivalent (PE). The analysis includes sewage sludge treatment, anaerobic digestion (AD),...
High-strength wastewaters from a variety of sources, including the food industry, domestic septage, and landfill leachate, are often hauled to municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) for co-treatment. Due to their high organic loadings, these w...
Anaerobic membrane bioreactors (AnMBRs) are formed through the combination of anaerobic digestion and membrane technology. The upgraded technology separates SRT from HRT in the anaerobic digester, shortening the treatment period, reducing the digeste...
Aeration is an energy-intensive process of aerobic biological treatment in wastewater treatment plants (WWTP). Two-stage processes enable energy-efficient operation, but oxygen transfer has not been studied in depth before. In this study, α-factors w...
The amount of sewage sludge produced in Poland is increasing every year. Once stabilised and hygienised, sewage sludge is a valuable product, rich in biogenic elements such as nitrogen and phosphorus, which are essential for plant growth. However, in...
Integrated fixed-film activated sludge (IFAS) is a hybrid wastewater treatment process that combines suspended and attached growth. The current review provides an overview of the effect of operating parameters on the performance of IFAS and their imp...
Water treatment plants produce a huge amount of sludge, which are ultimately disposed to the nearest water channel, leading to harmful effects. This unmanaged wastewater treatment plant sludge (WTS) results in social and environmental concerns. There...
Wastewater treatment plants increasingly rely on anaerobic digestion and biogas utilization to reduce operational costs, enhance energy self-sufficiency, and support circular-economy objectives. This study provides a comprehensive, year-round assessm...
The sequencing batch reactor (SBR) has been increasingly applied in the control of high organic wastewater. In this study, SBR with aerobic granular sludge was used for wastewater treatment in a noodle-manufacturing village in Vietnam. The results sh...
Following the completion of the installation and commissioning of a solar sludge drying system serving the largest wastewater treatment plant on the island of Tenerife, a study has been carried out on the possibilities of implementing this type of in...
The increasing environmental presence of metal oxide nanoparticles (NMOPs) raises concerns regarding their influence on biological wastewater treatment. This study comparatively evaluates the structural and biological effects of zinc oxide (ZnO-NPs)...
Mathematical modeling has become an indispensable tool for sustainable wastewater management, especially for the simulation of complex biochemical processes involved in the activated sludge process (ASP), which requires a substantial amount of data r...
The design and implementation of a simulator, as a real-time application, for a complex process from the biological treatment stage of a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP), is addressed. More precisely, this emulator was achieved as a software tool th...
The proposal of this work was the preparation and characterization of activated carbons obtained from water treatment plant sludge (WTS) to apply as adsorbents in the removal of organic dye contaminants from wastewater. The activated carbons were pro...
This study evaluated the efficiency of aerobic granular sludge (AGS) technology in treating wastewater contaminated with tetracycline (TC), a common antibiotic. AGS was cultivated under a TC pressure gradient ranging from 5 mg/L to 15 mg/L and compar...
Waste and recycled materials have recently been used in the construction industry to comply with the principles of circular economy and sustainable development. The aim of this paper is to examine the potentials of solidified wastewater treatment slu...
The dairy industry generates significant amounts of wastewater, including microfiltration (MF) retentate, a byproduct thickened with organic and inorganic pollutants. This study focuses on the treatment of two times concentrated MF retentate using a...
Dairy industry wastewater is rich in organic content, presenting a high biodegradability, and therefore biological treatments are widely employed. This study aimed to evaluate biosolids production in three systems: activated sludge (AS), movingbed bi...
Treating municipal wastewater is a complex and costly process. With rising energy costs and sustainability targets, wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are looking for alternatives to reduce operating costs and carbon dependence. Anaerobic digestion...
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